Digital Support Solution Area Specialist

• You will orchestrate a virtual team and assess customer needs to develop strategies that proactively build a stakeholder network to accelerate and close opportunities, drive a robust deployment, and remove blockers to consumption.
• You will propose the proper solution tailored to the customer’s specific needs through an understanding of your customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision making and budgetary processes as they apply to each relevant customer’s business decision makers.
• You will lead sales orchestration to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders as well as leveraging and expanding relationships with partners.
• Technical Expertise: You will lead BDM and ITDM conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
• You will be responsible for prospecting, qualifying, solutioning and closing business in your assigned territory. You will manage the end-to-end sales including ensuring continuous engagements to ensure customer satisfaction and business value around delivery success of your assigned territory through intentional selling driven by customer research; account planning; compete planning; risk planning; outcome-based & business value selling; and forecasting and pipeline management to pursue high-potential customers and manage Unified solutions across the organization.
• You will apply and encourage an innovative point of view during client interactions to identify new opportunities, grow client capabilities, and guide sellers and customers through a specific focus on knowledge of a specific industry or industries (e.g., healthcare, education, technology, finance) including trends, competition, etc. to establish point of view. Additionally, you will inform the Go To Market (GTM) strategy for solution sales motions and champion customer asks, blockers and escalations to progress deals faster into closure.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
• 3+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience

Digital Solution Area Specialists IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $40.96 - $80.96 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $60.96 - $86.11 per hour.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.